I was working my way through the Horizon 2 transition concepts for After Capitalism when a wonderful listserv …
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Next Economy: Is It Really Different This Time?
I finally got to Carlota Perez’s, Technological revolutions and financial capital: The dynamics of bubbles and golden …
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Next Economy Additions: Commons, Creative Molecular, and Em/Singularity
A couple of years, I started collecting and posting concepts or names for the next economy as part of my scanning (which …
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Sharing: Keep the good, leave the hype
It’s kind of fun to reflect on the meme hype cycle -- like Gartner’s Hype Hycle but for ideas rather than technologies. …
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Next Economy: Cutting Some Slack on Sharing
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names and then added five more that have been suggested for the next economy. …
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Five More New Economy Concepts
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names that have been suggested for the next economy. While I would not claim to …
Financial economy detracts from the real
We have known for some time that the financial economy is an order of magnitude (or more) greater than the real economy. …
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Value in an automated intelligent sharing economy
I hope you’ll pardon the mouthful of a title, but it seemed useful to convey a big gulp of ideas for organizing economic …
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Introducing The Future of Knowledge Work: Domain Map
This is the first in a series of posts about the future of the knowledge work. They are based on an article I did with …
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Archetypal Myths and transformational change: Work Is Essential to Human Nature
This is the second entry in a mini series (first “Earth was made for man”). Again, I’m using myth here in the sense …
An Ninth Characteristic of the Future Economy: Different Skill Mixes
Since this is the last post in the series on characteristics of the emerging economy, I’ll start with links to the …
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An Eighth Characteristic of the Future Economy: New Measures of Success
I put the previous characteristic or virtualization as “near certainty” barring collapse. I’m a bit less certain on this …
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A Seventh Characteristic of the Future Economy: More Virtual
Virtualization of work and the economy is pretty much inevitable, barring a near civilizational collapse. The momentum …
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A Sixth Characteristic of the Future Economy: More Local
There are all sorts of indicators suggesting a growing preference for things local. It’s part of the long term values …
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A Fifth Characteristic of the Future Economy: Sustainability
Sustainability has been on a long journey from the fringes to the mainstream of society. The discussion has shifted from …
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A fourth characteristic of the future economy: “openness”
There will be more opportunities for more active participation in the economy through small business & …
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A third characteristic of the economic future: “smartness”
I’m not exactly jumping out on a limb here! Let’s put a little description on smartness. In my talk, I suggested …
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A second characteristic of the economic future: bifurcation
To bifurcate is “to divide or fork into two branches.” I am not suggesting this is a good thing, but simply that it is …
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The Economic Transition Landing: Hard, Bumpy, or Soft?
There are different views among futurists and others about the nature of the [economic] transition. Futurists, of …
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What do we call the Next Economy?
In my previous post on “Planning for Two Economic Futures” I promised to provide some of the names that have been …
Planning for two economic futures
Just gave a talk on the future of the economy for the NORA summit. NORA (Northeast Oklahoma Regional Alliance) a …
Two Scenarios of the Future of Houston
I am looking forward to my talk tomorrow for Livable Houston(details here)on two scenarios for the future of Houston. …
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Value Shifts and Happiness Recipes
A reader comment on an earlier post, Happiness is in our Choices, prompted me to think more about the role of values …
The “New Normal” Obscures the Point
This popular phrase, which my old firm considered as a title for a multi-client meeting in 2009, may be giving us the …
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